May 19th, 2019 16:29
How to handle lots of spam sign ups?
I think we should stop new sign ups at least temporarily. Also see https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/poddery.com/issues/32
Pirate Praveen started a proposal May 19th, 2019 16:30
Stop new sign ups temporarily Closed 9:31pm - Wednesday 22 May 2019
Outcome
We can stop new sign ups temporarily and figure out ways to stop spammers in the meantime.
I think we need to stop new sign ups temporarily and figure out a way to stop spam sign ups permanently.
Results
| Agree - 3 |
| Abstain - 0 |
| Disagree - 0 |
| Block - 0 |
-47 people have voted (-1600%)
Anish Sheela
May 19th, 2019 16:34
Yes. Have to handle spam. Else it will affect real users too.
Pirate Praveen
May 19th, 2019 16:37
Juan Santiago
May 19th, 2019 18:51
ok, this must be sustainable
Pirate Praveen June 8th, 2019 13:17
Diaspora HQ suggested disabling http 1.0 stopped spam sign ups, we could try that.
Pirate Praveen June 11th, 2019 12:44
After http 1.0 was disabled, the spam sign ups have stopped for now. We will have to now think about cleaning up existing spam accounts.
Bady · May 28th, 2019 19:08
i think we could try setting captcha image_style to
almost_invisible? we've already setdistortionashigh.